Diane O'Donoghue

Biographic Data

ID4532678
NAMEDiane O'Donoghue
GIVEN NAMESDiane
FAMILY NAMEO'Donoghue
SIGNATUREDONOGHUE D O
AFFILIATIONS9 Washington Avenue #3, Cambridge, MA 02140
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Amnesias of a Freudian Kind

    Diane O’donoghue, Diane O''Donoghue et al.ARTICLEAmerican imago2021

    Freud's psychoanalytic project was indebted to mechanisms and effects that were made visible by acts of forgetting. Certain terms for that, such as repression, became dynamic constructions within his notions of unconscious functioning. But there is a notable example of a relevant concept, with currency in some later nineteenth-century scientific discourses, that seemingly remained purely descriptive for him: amnesia. This essay, the first of two …

  • Amnesias of a Freudian Kind, Part II

    Diane O’donoghue, Diane O''Donoghue et al.ARTICLEAmerican imago2021

    Amnesias of a Freudian Kind, Part II Diane O'Donoghue (bio) Part II This essay is the second of a two-part series that examines Freud's constructions of amnesia as they participated in "forgetting," both within the mechanisms of his psychoanalytic project and, far less investigated, as a way to fix the borders of his idea of an unconscious. As argued in Part One (O'Donoghue, 2021), the operations of forgetting that Freud would identify with repre…

  • Coda

    Diane O’donoghue, Diane O''Donoghue et al.ARTICLEAmerican imago2019

    Coda:Sigismund's Wolves Diane O'Donoghue (bio) As the essays in this issue vividly illustrate, Freud's "From the History of an Infantile Neurosis"—ubiquitously known as the "Wolf Man" case—can still lead the reader, one hundred years after its publication, down many fascinating yet little-traversed paths. And deep in the forest is the animal that, despite having its name endlessly evoked as the moniker for Freud's essay and the person whose story…

  • Moses in Moravia

    Diane O’donoghue, Diane O''Donoghue et al.ARTICLEAmerican imago2010

    Approaching eighty, Freud, in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, described his engagement with the story of Moses as enduring "throughout the whole of my life." The origins of this relationship, usually traced to Freud's experiences with the narratives of his childhood Bible, may have included early encounters, in the company of his Czech caretaker, with sculptural images as well. The first three years of Freud's life were spent in Moravia, where a …

  • The Magic of the Manifest

    Diane O’donoghue, Diane O''Donoghue et al.ARTICLEAmerican imago2009

    Textual evidence shows that dream interpretation preceded Freud by several millennia, but his method was unprecedented. In asserting that the dream's remembered, or manifest, content was merely a disguise for censored, latent meaning, he associated manifest content with notions of animism and magical thinking that characterized colonialist attitudes toward non-European cultures. This paper examines Freud's investment in devaluing dream imagery an…

  • Negotiations of Surface

    Open AccessDiane O’donoghue, Diane O'DonoghueARTICLEJournal of the American…2004Cited by: 3References: 8

    Freud's “The Aetiology of Hysteria” (1896) begins with the description of an excavation. With this passage as a point of departure, the role of archaeology in Freud's early psychoanalytic formulations is examined. The archaeological imagery in his later writings and the collection of ancient objects that came to fill his consulting room and library are well known, but the passage must be contextualized in its own moment to show the influences tha…